Best Churros in Madrid

Chocolatería de San Ginés has been open in the Pasadizo de San Ginés, just off Puerta del Sol, since 1894, and sits on both the Ayuntamiento de Madrid's Comercios Centenarios register and the Comunidad de Madrid's Establecimiento Centenario list. It's the one churrería on this list that never closes: chocolate con churros is on the menu 24 hours a day, every day, which makes it a genuine after-midnight stop as much as a breakfast one. The carta runs traditional hot chocolate at €3.70, a ración of six churros at €2.50 and two porras at €2.50, plus special chocolates with cream or coffee. There's a terrace in the passage and a downstairs room, and queues build at weekends and around Christmas, though service moves fast once you're seated.

“Hace magníficos churros y porras y, además, su chocolate brilla a gran altura”— Directo al Paladar

Churrería Madrid 1883 has occupied the same corner of Malasaña, on Calle Espíritu Santo, since 1883, and the venue bills itself as the oldest churrería in the capital. Four generations of the same family of churreros have run it, now in the hands of Mario Mendoza Manzano and his sister, who inherited the recipes. The pitch is the classic Madrid pairing done simply: crisp loop churros, long tejeringos and porras, bathed in thick chocolate, served in a small, modern cafetín with wifi. It opens daily at 06:30 and closes by early afternoon, so it's a morning and midday stop rather than a late-night one. Fresh orange juice is on the menu too, alongside the churros and porras.

“Their churros are hand-crafted and fried to golden perfection.”— Eating Europe

La Andaluza has been on Calle de Hernani in Tetuán's Cuatro Caminos area since shortly before the Spanish Civil War, when the Repullo Hernández family founded it. Three generations ran it until 2005, when they sold to a longtime employee, churrero Javier Mata Serna, who still owns it and now employs eleven people. It holds a Repsol Solete, and everything, churros, porras and buñuelos, is hand-mixed and fried fresh through the morning from recipes that go back four generations. It's one of the few churrerías left in Madrid still making buñuelos, and it makes its own chocolate too. Churros run €0.45, porras €0.55 and buñuelos €0.65 on the printed carta. It closes around midday and doesn't open Sundays.

“Barra rápida y género recién hecho”— Directo al Paladar

Chocolatería 1902 sits on Calle de San Martín in the Barrio de los Austrias and holds a Repsol Solete. Five generations of the same family have made churros here, and the fifth, Juan Gabriel and Héctor, still make the chocolate to the house formula, blending three South American cacaos. The venue describes itself as the oldest family-run business of its kind in Spain. Beyond the classic churros and porras, it does gluten-free, lactose-free, sugar-free and vegan versions. It opens at 07:00 and runs until 23:00, later on Fridays and Saturdays, and sells its chocolate by the kilo through its own site.

“los churros y porras están hechos artesanalmente”— Un Buen Día en Madrid

Maestro Churrero traces its history to 1902, when Don Florencio fried churros on the streets of Madrid at the corner of Atocha and Paseo del Prado. The family's first shop opened in 1982 on Plaza de Jacinto Benavente, and the Maestro Churrero brand followed in 2004. The fourth generation of the family runs it now, from a base in the Barrio de los Austrias that holds a Repsol Solete. Traditional churros and porras with hot chocolate are the core of it, but the menu has grown well past the classic format: Churro Bites dipped in chocolate, dulce de leche or Nutella, Churros Golosos filled with cream, cinnamon and lemon or dulce de leche, mini Churros 7 Colors in seven flavours, and a rolled Churro Maki. Gluten-free churros are on the menu too. It opens daily at 08:00, later on Fridays and Saturdays, and there's a second branch on Carrera de San Jerónimo.

“Mezclar lo tradicional y lo moderno es algo que a Maestro Churrero se le da de lujo”— Un Buen Día en Madrid

Mayoma is a small churrería at Francisco Silvela 67 in Salamanca, working the early trade from 05:30 until noon every day and nothing else. It's mostly bar service with one small table, so expect to stand, though takeaway is easy too. It serves churros and porras with thick hot chocolate or coffee. There's no website or published menu, so it's worth calling ahead for anything beyond the basics. Because it closes at noon, it's strictly a morning stop rather than an afternoon or evening one.

“Churros crujientes, finos, limpios en un local que se convierte en un peregrinar”— Directo al Paladar

Chocolat Madrid has traded on one thing since December 2003: artisan chocolate in the Barrio de las Letras, made to a standard that's earned it a Repsol Solete. Owner Juan Alfonso and his team make the churros and porras themselves every morning, alongside thick drinking chocolate, artisan sponges and tarts, and a Chocolate Churro pastry on the printed menu. There's a savoury side too, tostas and bocadillos, if you'd rather not start the day on sugar. It opens at eight every day and runs late most nights, to 22:00 or 23:00 depending on the day, closing earlier on Tuesdays.

Churrería Santa Ana is a small churros counter at Calle de Santa Ana 5, in La Latina, in the streets of the Rastro. There are no tables, so it's strictly grab-and-go: churros and porras fried every morning, with hot chocolate alongside. It's a morning-only operation, from 07:00 on weekdays, and until 12:00 on Saturday and 13:00 on Sunday.

Chocolatería La Encarnita is a neighbourhood churrería and café on Calle de Meléndez Valdés, near Moncloa, open before dawn on weekdays. Churros and porras with chocolate are the draw, with tortilla, tostadas and fresh orange juice for a fuller breakfast. It's air-conditioned with free wifi and family-friendly, opening at 06:00 Tuesday to Friday and 07:00 on weekends, closed Monday. It sits at the cheap end of the scale, roughly €1 to €10 a person, and takes cards.

Cafetería-churrería Llorsan works Carretera de Canillas, out in the Canillas quarter of Hortaleza in northern Madrid, well away from the tourist churrerías of the centre. It's a morning operation through and through: churros and porras with hot chocolate or coffee. There's a terrace out front if you'd rather linger and free parking if you're driving in, which makes it more of a local destination than a walk-in stop. It opens early, from 6am on weekdays and 7am at weekends, and closes by 2pm once the morning trade is done.

Peyma is a long-standing café, churrería and bar on Calle Embajadores in Lavapiés, a plain, all-day neighbourhood spot. Mornings bring churros and porras fried fresh, plus tostadas with tomato and fresh orange juice. Later in the day the same room switches to tapas, tortilla pinchos and a menú del día, with a terrace outside for anyone who wants to sit. It opens at 08:15 and runs to midnight Tuesday through Saturday, to 20:00 on Sunday, and closes Monday entirely. It's inexpensive across the board.

Casa Manolo is a classic bar on Calle de Jovellanos, right behind the Congreso de los Diputados and beside the Teatro de la Zarzuela, holding a Repsol Solete. The taberna opened in 1896 as Casa Isaac. Croquetas, the ham ones especially, are what it's known for, but it serves churros at breakfast too. Later in the day the menu moves to callos, empanadillas and tortilla in callos sauce, with a vermouth and a revuelto of salt cod and potatoes rounding things out. Politicians drop in after parliamentary sessions at the Congreso nearby. It's closed Sundays and open Monday lunch only, with fuller hours the rest of the week.

El Escudo is a classic, unfussy neighbourhood bar on Calle Ponzano in Ríos Rosas, part of Madrid's Chamberí district, with no website of its own; the menu is read off chalkboards by the door. Breakfast on the boards is coffee with churros, porras, a pastry or a barrita, and a fuller special breakfast adds fresh orange juice. Later on, the boards run to salads, sandwiches, burgers, sartenazos and platos combinados, plus raciones and tapas at the bar. It opens early, around 06:30, and runs to around midnight, closed Sundays. Prices change, so it's worth checking at the bar.

Jíbaro is an all-day Cuban and Spanish spot on Plaza de Cascorro in the Embajadores district, dog-friendly and open every day from the morning. Breakfast runs to tostadas and a pincho de tortilla alongside churros or porras with coffee, priced at €3.50 on the menu, before the kitchen moves into its Cuban and Spanish plates: the cubano sandwich, huevos habaneros, pulpo a la jíbara, and cocktails like the mojito jíbaro and canchánchara. It's open late on Fridays and Saturdays, to 01:00, and bookings run through TheFork.

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RavioXO is chef Dabiz Muñoz's pasta and dough-led restaurant in Cuatro Caminos, part of his univerXO group, holding one Michelin star and one Repsol Sol inside the Gourmet Experience space at El Corte Inglés Castellana. It opened in May 2022. Dough is the whole point of the kitchen, and that extends to dessert: Mexican Churros sit on the menu at €14, alongside a kakigori shaved ice and other sweets, inside a wider carta built around dumplings like the tortellini-wonton hybrid 'wontollini.' It's a different kind of churros experience entirely, a tasting-menu-priced dessert rather than a breakfast counter, and it sits in the €70-90 per person range overall.